The Mesa County Commissioners will hold a public hearing to consider a 12-month temporary moratorium on applications to build data centers in the unincorporated areas of the county at 9:00 a.m. on Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at the old courthouse at 544 Rood Ave. in Grand Junction. The moratorium is intended to keep the status quo while giving the county time to re-write its Land Development Code. The commissioners will consider a resolution to block the acceptance, processing, and approval of new land use applications or county incentives to build data centers in unincorporated areas of Mesa County.
The moratorium is Item #1 on the agenda to consider after the Consent Agenda. You can view the full meeting agenda here.The link to the meeting agenda also contains a Zoom link for the meeting and instructions on how to sign up to comment virtually. You can also send a comment to the County at the webform here.
Mesa County residents can attend the meeting in person in the Public Hearing Room on Rood Avenue or watch the meeting and participate online at this link by clicking the “Live Meeting” button while the hearing is ongoing.
6 thoughts on “Mesa County Commissioners to hold public hearing on data center moratorium on Tuesday, Sept. 29”
Marcus Feld
Flagging the Mesa County Commissioners’ Sept. 29 public hearing on a data center moratorium gives western Colorado readers a concrete date instead of another vague AI-infrastructure rant. Local hearing notices like this are how residents actually show up.
Jordan Pike
Putting the 12-month data-center pause as Item #1 after Consent, with Zoom signup and the county webform on the same agenda page, is how local process notes should look. Residents who cannot reach 544 Rood Ave at 9 a.m. still get a real path to comment.
Clara Benning
Holding things at the status quo for 12 months while the Land Development Code is rewritten seems a sensible middle ground, and it helps that residents can comment by Zoom or the county webform instead of only in person.
Public-notice posts like this are easy to scroll past, but they are how people actually show up to the meeting. Thanks for putting the details in one place.
Tracy
Anne, thanks for the link!
THOMAS ACKER
Anne, thank you for providing ways for community to participate. Bobbie Daniel (Commissioner) suggested that we go to MesaCounty.gov to participate on this issue. Either she is ignorant about the obstacles to navigating the Mesa County website or she doesn’t really want community members to actively participate. You have help us luddites interact much more easily
Flagging the Mesa County Commissioners’ Sept. 29 public hearing on a data center moratorium gives western Colorado readers a concrete date instead of another vague AI-infrastructure rant. Local hearing notices like this are how residents actually show up.
Putting the 12-month data-center pause as Item #1 after Consent, with Zoom signup and the county webform on the same agenda page, is how local process notes should look. Residents who cannot reach 544 Rood Ave at 9 a.m. still get a real path to comment.
Holding things at the status quo for 12 months while the Land Development Code is rewritten seems a sensible middle ground, and it helps that residents can comment by Zoom or the county webform instead of only in person.
Public-notice posts like this are easy to scroll past, but they are how people actually show up to the meeting. Thanks for putting the details in one place.
Anne, thanks for the link!
Anne, thank you for providing ways for community to participate. Bobbie Daniel (Commissioner) suggested that we go to MesaCounty.gov to participate on this issue. Either she is ignorant about the obstacles to navigating the Mesa County website or she doesn’t really want community members to actively participate. You have help us luddites interact much more easily